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Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: OT: Downloading file by sending email
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> Thanks Olivier. I was stumped on how to make maildrop pipe the email to some 
> program. A bit of research on that (and reading the manpages) showed me how. 
> Now that I've figured that part, the problem is not too difficult. Gotta make 
> a shell/ perl script now to parse the message and do the downloading etc ...

such kind of service is one of the easiest to be abused